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In this spooky season, innumerable movies can deliver your fix of torture-dealing maniacs and irritable ghosts, but it takes a special picture to make FFA cattle auctions seem endlessly ominous. I&rsq ...
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No one ever accused Bert I. Gordon of abandoning his favorite themes. They called him Mr. B.I.G., because the director used rear-projecting small creatures to look like large creatures, and a year aft ...
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Ambrosia for connoisseurs of ’70s big-beastie pictures, The Food of the Gods has the broad acting and menagerie fixation of the era’s Disney pictures, except it’s trying to be a horr ...
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The 35th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has triggered another round of finger-pointing about whether this movie or Star Wars dealt the death blow to the intelligent moviemaking of the 19 ...
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The greatest three seconds of the schlocky 1987 teen vampires in Cali bloodfest The Lost Boys belong to a muscly lunk named Tim Cappello, who sears retinas as a bare-chested, greased-up, pelvic-gyrati ...
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Among the debatable benefits of the new, improvisational approach to forging comedies (philosophy: Let the jesters riff for hours, pick the best bits in the cutting room) is the supporting performance ...
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It’s MusicfestNW week. You will, at some point, be hung over. May I offer a suggestion? Relieve your headache with Wet Hot American Summer, one of the most reinvigorating comedies of the past d ...
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The most interesting tidbit in Vanity Fair’s postmortem profile of John Hughes this February was that he based Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on his high-school memories…of himself. No, h ...
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Heavy-metal satire is not a genre that seems to demand a second entry after This Is Spinal Tap, but no matter: Here is Born Again Sage, a black mass of jokes about men who live for “drawing pic ...
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